Is the movie wicked gay

Here’s our guide to all of the LGBT+ innuendos (and outuendos) going down at the Ozdust Ballroom now that “Wicked”—and its accompanying queer discourse—is now in theaters. Now, as Out always asks, how gay is it? The central story of Wicked is and always has been a love story between its two female leads. That certainly doesn't change here and any Gelphie shippers. Ariana and Cynthia have spoken about Wicked's subtext, but are there any actual gay characters or actors in the film?.

In the film, the relationship between the two feels like it could easily veer into classic enemies-to-lovers territory. Elphaba and Glinda hate each other, they love each other, they dance awkwardly, and there are meaningful glances. Cynthia Erivo ‘s real-life sexuality and the metaphor of Elphaba Thopp’s frowned-upon outsider identity aside, Wicked has no openly queer characters, but “this hasn’t stopped fans from exploring several queer-coded elements and metaphors,” says one of the queer-authored essays I’ve been reading.

One thing that connects all of the current editors of Autostraddle is that we all have a deep love for and background in musical theater. I went to a performing arts high school where I studied musical theater, Riese went to THEE performing arts boarding school, and Drew was also a theater dork. We all have unhealthy relationships to the television program Glee. In high school, the stage was the one space where homosexuals were at the top of the food chain.

It has preserved this time-honored tradition! Therefore, when Cynthia was cast as Elphaba in the Wicked movie, we decided all Wicked news was automatically gay.

She is in a relationship with Lena Waithe. Gay Power Couple much?

The LGBTQ+ cast of 'Wicked'

Jonathan Bailey, who plays Fiyero in Wicked , has been publicly out as gay since , though he came out privately to family and friends before that, in his early twenties. In my professional opinion, Fiyero being played by a gay man only adds to my headcanon that Elphaba and Glinda are in a relationship with each other and Fiyero is merely their platonic but perhaps toxically enmeshed gay boy best friend.

Marissa Bode is also queer! The actress who plays Nessarose and has unfortunately had to call out ableist comments about her character has been providing some queer disability visibility on the Wicked press tour as an out wheelchair user. Bode is in a relationship with writer Lauren Brooks. They did Chappell Roan-inspired couples costumes for Halloween this year!

Pfannee is definitely textually queer in the film! He swoons over Fiyero! Co-hosting the popular gay pop culture podcast Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and starring in the gay rom-com Fire Island , Yang has a very queer career, and his casting in Wicked was thrilling news for me and all the gays and girls I know. A post shared by Bowen Yang fayedunaway.

Glinda surrounding herself with gays while entering into a fraught homoerotic dynamic with an enemy-turned-best-friend? That has closeted musical theater gay written all over it, and I should know. James is married to Katherine-Alice, who founded a nonprofit that promotes accessibility in the arts in Yorkshire. Yang and James answered some wonderfully gay questions from Gay Times about their characters, including which character would stay at the gay club all night, to which both answered ShenShen.

Party Dyke Legend! Sharon D. Clarke is a heavily accoladed UK stage actress, and she voices Dulcibear, the bear nurse who raises Elphaba since her father is an asshole who hates his green child. Clarke is married to writer and director Susie McKenna. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando.

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